Loma people

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Not to be confused with Lom people.
Loma
Traditional, Christianity, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Mende people, Kpelle people, Kissi people, Mano people, Vai people, Kono people, Gbandi people

The Loma people, sometimes called Loghoma, Looma, Lorma or Toma, are a

ethnic group living primarily in mountainous, sparsely populated regions near the border between Guinea and Liberia.[3][4] Their population was estimated at 330,000 in the two countries in 2010.[5] They are closely related to the Mende people.[4]

The Loma speak

Bandi languages.[3] The Loma refer to their language as Löömàgòòi [lɔːmàɡòːi] or Löghömàgòòi [lɔɣɔmàɡòːi]).[3] The Loma people, led by Wido Zobo and assisted by a Loma weaver named Moriba, developed a writing script for their language in the 1930s.[5] This writing script contains at least 185 characters.[6]

The Mandinka, Koniaka, and Kissi refer to the Loma as Toma.[1][3] Loma refer to themselves as Löömàgìtì (IPA: [lɔːmàɡìtì], or Löghömagiti [lɔɣɔmaɡiti] in Guinea).[3] They have retained their Traditional Religion, and resisted the Islamic jihads. The Loma people called the religious conflict with Mandinka people as a historic 'rolling war'.[7]

The Loma people are notable for their large wooden masks that merge syncretic animal and human motifs. These masks have been a part of their Poro secret rites of passage. The largest masks are about six feet high, contain feather decorations and believed by Loma to have forest spirits.[8]

The Loma people farm rice, but in shifting farms. They are exogamous people, with patrilineal social organization in matters related to inheritance, succession and lineage affiliations with one-marriage rule. Joint families, or virilocal communities are common, wherein families of brothers settle close to each other.[9]

The Loma people are also referred to as Buzi, Buzzi, Logoma, Toale, Toali, Toa, or Tooma.[10]

Loma patronyms

Loma surnames
  • Bamavogui
  • Bassingui
  • Bavogui (Gbavogui)
  • Béavogui
  • Billivogui
  • Bolivogui
  • Dopagui
  • Dopavogui
  • Falivogui
  • Foniwogui
  • Grovogui
  • Guilavogui
  • Goépogui
  • Golovogui
  • Gouavogui
  • Honivogui
  • Inapogui
  • Kalivogui
  • Kebawogui
  • Koévogui
  • Koivogui
  • Koropogui
  • Kovogui
  • Kovoigui
  • Koyavogui
  • Kpakpavogui
  • Lenogui
  • Monpagui
  • Nikavogui
  • Oivogui
  • Onépogui
  • Onipogui
  • Onivogui
  • Pamavogui
  • Papavogui
  • Poévogui
  • Povogui
  • Sakouvogui
  • Sakovogui
  • Sampogui
  • Savogui
  • Sedepogui
  • Sevogui
  • Sivogui
  • Soivogui
  • Solopogui
  • Solovogui
  • Somopogui
  • Soropogui
  • Sorovogui
  • Sovogui
  • Sovoïgui
  • Sowogui
  • Sympogui (Simpogui)
  • Toulouvogui
  • Toupouvogui
  • Zoumanigui

Notable Loma people

References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Toma". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International.
  2. ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009). "Loma". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International.
  3. ^ a b c d e Leopold, Robert Selig (1991). "2". Prescriptive Alliance and Ritual Collaboration in Loma Society (Thesis). Indiana University. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-9987-16-025-9
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9
    .
  7. ISBN 978-9004191402
    , pages 273-294
  8. ISBN 978-0-313-33291-3
    .
  9. JSTOR 3773294
    .
  10. ^ RAMEAU, BnF [1]

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